COVID-19 … The crisis we had to have?
At times I have felt I am living in a dream, it just seems so surreal the situation we have found ourselves in. This pandemic and the crisis it is creating has impacted all of…
Herbert Marcuse – A German-American Philosopher born in Berlin
Herbert Marcuse was born in Berlin in 1898 and lived until 1979. He studied at Humboldt University and then later at Freidberg University where he received his PhD. He was a German-American philosopher, sociologist and…
Jan Hus – A Czech Philosopher and Theologian
Jan Hus, born Jan Husinec, lived from 1369 to 1415, and was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a church reformer and an inspirer of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism and was a…
An Austrian Philosopher – Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
I like the story of Wittgenstein, he lived from 1889 to 1951 and was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.…
A Hungarian Philosopher – Ágnes Heller
Agnes Heller was born in 1929 and died earlier this year in July. She was a Hungarian Philosopher and teacher. She was a core member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960’s. During…
Rene Descartes – A French philosopher who lived in Amsterdam
Well yesterday I blogged about Baruch Spinoza but today I want to say a few things about the philosopher Rene Descartes, another philosopher I have learned more about recently and am inspired by. Descartes was…
Baruch Spinoza – a Dutch Philosopher
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” Baruch Spinoza Today we visited the statue of Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher whom I have been…